{"id":274130,"date":"2026-01-31T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:25:11","slug":"chinas-manufacturing-pmi-drops-back-into-contraction-as-weak-demand-drags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274130\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s manufacturing PMI drops back into contraction as weak demand drags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Index slips to 49.3 in January from 50.1 in December<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260131 China Economy\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">An employee works on a production line manufacturing pipe-fitting valves at a\u00a0factory\u00a0in Wenzhou,\u00a0China, on\u00a0Jan. 14.\u00a0 \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>January 31, 2026 12:39 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHENZHEN (Reuters) &#8212; China&#8217;s factory activity faltered in January as weak domestic demand dragged down production at the start of the new year, an official survey showed on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Index slips to 49.3 in January from 50.1 in December An employee works on a production line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64199,72,58415,92980,1181,133649,127250,113,61,60,2720,44394,103027],"class_list":["post-274130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-back","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-contraction","tag-demand","tag-drags","tag-drops","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manufacturing","tag-pmi","tag-weak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}